Free teacher web sites for Science topic ‘Materials - Changing materials’

Scroll down on this CCHS page to find some lovely activities to get children thinking about the effects of heating and cooling. Slightly more technical experience required to view this activity. Involves unzipping a file. Ask your ICT coordinator or technician about this if you are unsure.

External link: Changes by heating and cooling

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Water cycle diagram and a great water (changing state ) activity. With lots of opportunities to use key vocab such as melting, evaporating etc....

External link: Changing state activities

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Watch ice melt and solidify in this BBC simulation.

External link: Changing state simulation

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Click on Evaporation under activities. Choose the container and the type of weather and set this experiment going. What effects the rate of evaporation? Also on activities there's a "resource ID" which features renewable and non renewable energy sources.
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External link: Evaporation simulation

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Try the "change it" button to put different objects into the oven. There are some lovely pictures of mixtures too.

External link: Heating materials

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A fantastic powerpoint presentation to teach the 'Keeping warm' unit from NWN.

External link: Keeping warm powerpoint

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The old 'wrap materials round a cup and pour in hot water' experiment from the BBC. Great for temperature insulation or conductivity.

External link: Keeping warm simulation

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Sits happily in science and maths topics. Great revision site by the BBC.

External link: Measuring temperature

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If you are teaching this unit you'll find all you need in this NWN presentation.

External link: More about dissolving presentation

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You'll need to follow these instructions exactly if you want to use this website.
Click on - to see and do
Click on - gallery
Page 3 has freezer movie
You'll find stop frame animation of ice melting, shadows changing shape, the sun rising and setting, an eye blinking, rivers flowing, stars appearing to move in the sky and cymbals vibrating.
Fantastic website.

External link: Playing with time - ice melting

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A great BBC science clips simulation for upper KS2.

External link: Reversible and irreversible changes

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Great for talking about what temperatures mean. ie how cold is a fridge / freezer etc

External link: Temperature

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A nice visual demo of the water cycle for KS2.

External link: Water cycle

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A fantastic BBC animation which features key scientific vocab - ideal for teacher to voice over. Super.

External link: Water cycle animation

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